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Death is no mystery to Peggy after living as a vampire for over half a century. That doesn't mean the death of her best friend isn't devastating. Add to that the threat of someone going after that friend's great granddaughter, Maya, and suddenly death has a new fear to it. She'll have to push the boundaries of life itself to uncover what and why Maya has suddenly become a high priority target for a secret society. There might just be answers to her own murder hidden in the web of secrets.

The Fairtane family have ruled a small, cursed island for generations - until the night before Rowan Fairtane turns sixteen, when a too-successful attempt at usurping them leaves him the last surviving member of the family. With no plan for how to proceed, he assumes the morning will bring his death. Only for his twin brother to be the one standing at the door. Soren Fairtane disappeared five years ago, on the eve of his eleventh birthday, and was presumed drowned. Everyone knows that. His return to the island, though, isn't Rowan's saving grace at all. If anything it's about to spell disaster for them both, because Soren has a plan and five years have not really changed the insanity of his plans all that much. With nowhere else to go, though, Rowan finds himself joining forces with Soren in his attempt to find a way to break the curse keeping everyone trapped on the island. But even if it has been five years since Soren vanished, it's not hard to tell that some things about him have changed... and the longer they spend searching for answers, the more Rowan begins to wonder. What happened over the last five years? And is the answer to the island's curse right in front of him?

(There will be a blurb, I'm just struggling to come up with it. Cover may also change.) Written for the Open Novella Contest prompt 48: The curse of magic is that for every reward, there is a great loss. For every spell that goes right, there is something else -- in the real, natural world -- that goes terribly wrong. Nature likes its balance.

Every step away from home is a chance for an adventure and Darcy is on her first one. She's been dreaming of finding her father for as long as she can remember. He's out there and she's got a list of clues and a crappy map, but it'll do. Less than a day into her travel she's accosted by a mango throwing thief and lands herself in a band of mind controlling musicians. Taking over the world wasn't on the itinerary.

Round1✔ - Ambassadors' Pick - Round2✔ - Longlist✔ - Shortlist✔ ----------- Oct 4, 2025: featured on @Fantasy - Mythology & Folklore ----------- Genre: fantasy, romance, and a teeny tiny bit of action. ----------- Of a Moon, majestic silver and soothing blue, that hung in the sky, breathing life into barrenness and lifting away the darkness that threatened to swallow everything. And a wolf, fur darker than night itself, that would passionately howl at the moon in a holy nocturnal ritual. He yearned to go and reach his beloved sphere of blessed silver rays for it breathed life into his very being and gave meaning to his existence. His howls were a balm to her lonely soul and so, on one spectacular night, the Moon in all her glory descended, gracing her devoted worshipper with her radiant presence. That was how the wolf's search for his otherworldly beloved ended. She'd come to him instead. Indeed, a desperate wish, made from the heart, is always answered, sooner or later. ----------- Warning: mention of violence (wolves, duh) and blood, fluff, extremely gorgeous FL, one hawt ML, and (A LOT OF) sexual tension. *evil laugh* ----------- Note: 1. this is the prequel to Rieka (ONC22) and The Dark Side Of The Moon (ONC23) 2. the story is written from an omniscient point of view. ----------- + If you are reading this on any site other than Wattpad then it is being unlawfully shared. Mirror sites often contain malware so please protect yourself and the work of this author by reading only on Wattpad. ------------------ [ONC entry - 1st draft - unedited]